Her research and teaching interests include environmental narrative, media and art in contemporary American culture; contributions of writers and artists to food movements; and collaboration between the humanities and ecological sciences. She also writes about the historical avant-garde and other experimental and counter-cultural aesthetic movements as they have taken shape in the Americas. The author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food (Cambridge UP 2013) and co-author with Amy L. Tigner of Literature and Food Studies(Routledge, forthcoming 2018), she is working on a new book provisionally titled Nature Remade: Forging Green Futures in Times of Crisis.